“Currently, the U.S. admits more than 1.5 million legal and illegal immigrants every year, with more than 70 percent coming to the country through the process known as “chain migration” whereby newly naturalized citizens can bring an UNLIMITED relatives to the U.S. In the next 20 years, the current U.S. legal immigration system is on track to import 15 million new foreign-born voters. Between 7 and 8 million of those foreign-born will arrive in the U.S. through chain migration.” JOHN BINDER

Saturday, July 18, 2015

The Super-Rich Give Generously to the Clinton Phony Charity

“At
this point, Clinton is the choice of most

multimillionaires to be the next
occupant of the

White House. A recent CNBC poll of 750

millionaires found 53
percent support for Clinton

in a contest with Republican Jeb Bush, 14 points

better than Obama’s showing in the 2012 election

with the same group.”

DICK MORRIS:

The shady, shabby and sordid political lives of Hillary and
Billary – America’s premiere white-collar criminals.

THE SUPER-RICH
GIVE GENEROUSLY TO THE CLINTON PHONY CHARITY! WHAT ARE THE BUYING? WHAT HAS
OBAMA-CLINTONOMICS DONE FOR THEM? WHAT HAS HILLARY PROMISED?

Donors to
Foundation

Hillary
Clinton has turned to a familiar source to find supporters willing to raise
more than $100,000 each for her presidential campaign: major donors to the
Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.

The former
president of the United States agreed to accept a lifetime achievement award at
the June 2014 event after Ms. Nemcova offered a $500,000 contribution to the
Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation. The donation, made late last year
after the foundation sent the charity an invoice, amounted to almost a quarter
of the evening’s net proceeds — enough to build 10 preschools in Indonesia.

“In reality, the settlement falls
far short of holding JPMorgan accountable for its fraudulent sale of
mortgage-backed assets, which netted the bank tens of billions of dollars in
profits while exacerbating the sub-prime mortgage crash that led to over ten
million foreclosures in the US and a global economic downturn that thrust many
millions more into unemployment and poverty.”

"These are countries with
policies that are horrific towards women's rights, and I think it's
unconscionable that Hillary Clinton is accepting donations from them,"
Paul said, noting instances of women raped, given lashes and stoned to death in
those countries.” RAND PAUL

The Saudis and Gulf
Arabs, cash-fat on the $110-a-barrel oil they sell U.S. consumers, will pick up
the tab for the Tomahawk missiles. Has it come to this — U.S. soldiers,
sailors, Marines and airmen as the mercenaries of sheiks, sultans and emirs,
Hessians of the New World Order, hired out to do the big-time killing for Saudi
and Sunni royals?

American defense
contractors also donated to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was
secretary of state and in some cases made personal payments to Bill Clinton for
speaking engagements.

In all, governments and corporations
involved in the arms deals approved by Clinton’s State Department have
delivered between $54 million and $141 million to the Clinton Foundation as
well as hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments to the Clinton family,
according to foundation and State Department records. The Clinton Foundation
publishes only a rough range of individual contributors’ donations, making a
more precise accounting impossible.

IBTimes’ review of the Clintons’ annual
financial disclosures also revealed that 13 companies lobbying the State Department paid Bill Clinton
$2.5 million in speaking fees while Hillary Clinton headed the agency.

The speech makes clear that a Clinton
presidency will pursue the same pro-Wall Street policies of the Obama
administration, seeking to expand the fortunes of the super-rich at the expense
of the great majority of society, while invoking “fairness” and “equality” as
window dressing.

Hillary bellies up to Obama’s banksters – She reeks of the smell
of BRIBES and BAILOUTS

Hillary
and Obama’s crony criminal banksters…. their looting has just begun!

“President
Bill Clinton repealed the law in 1999. Glass-Steagall has long been popular
with liberals, who argue the repeal was part of the deregulation they say led
to the 2008 financial collapse.”

Clinton
herself is far more likely to be on speaking terms with hedge-fund managers or
Silicon Valley billionaires than with the “typical American worker.” After a
recent campaign fundraiser at the home of John Chambers, the founding
billionaire of Cisco Systems, she pronounced herself interested in his proposal
to cut the corporate tax rate for overseas earnings so that Cisco and other
corporations holding more than $1.5 trillion in profits in foreign bank
accounts might repatriate the money and use it in the United States. “It
doesn’t do our economy any good to have this money parked somewhere else in the
world,” Clinton told the Wall Street Journal.

“The answer: Any tool
that increases Washington's involvement in big business — here and abroad —
creates opportunities for politicians to demand tribute from corporate and
government coffers and increase political control over business. Ex-Im is a
goldmine for a transactional politician like Hillary.” --- TIMOTHY P. CARNEY, Washington Examiner

“By the time of Bill
Clinton’s election in 1992, the Democratic Party had completely repudiated its
association with the reforms of the New Deal and Great Society periods. Clinton
gutted welfare programs to provide an ample supply of cheap labor for the rich
(WHICH NOW MEANS OPEN BORDERS AND NO E-VERIFY!), including a growing layer of
black capitalists, and passed the 1994 Federal Crime Bill, with its notorious
“three strikes” provision that has helped create the largest prison population
in the world.”

*

“Calling income and wealth inequality the "great
moral issue of our time," Sanders laid out a sweeping, almost unimaginably
expensive program to transfer wealth from the richest Americans to the poor and
middle class. A $1 trillion public works program to create "13 million
good-paying jobs." A $15-an-hour federal minimum wage. "Pay
equity" for women. Paid sick leave and vacation for everyone. Higher taxes
on the wealthy. Free tuition at all public colleges and universities. A
Medicare-for-all single-payer health care system. Expanded Social Security
benefits. Universal pre-K.” WASHINGTON
EXAMINER

HILLARY CLINTON: GLOBAL LOOTER LIKE A THIRD-WORLD DICTATOR IN THE MAKING!

The US presidency for sale

20 July 2015

The 2016 US presidential election will be the most expensive in history, costing an estimated $10 billion, when all spending by candidates, the Democratic and Republican parties, super PACs and other corporate lobbies and trade unions is tabulated.

The vast sums being raised and spent by the Democratic and Republican candidates make a mockery of the claims that the United States is a democracy in which the people rule. It is big money that rules, dominating the entire process of selecting the candidates of the only two officially recognized parties and effectively determining the outcome of the vote on November 8, 2016.

Of the $390 million raised so far, $300 million has gone to the 15 announced candidates for the Republican presidential nomination, while $90 million has gone to four Democrats—$71.5 million of that to the Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton. The disparity is misleading: once the primary contest is over, and a Republican is selected to face Clinton, there will be billions spent on each side in the general election campaign.

The role of big money in the presidential campaign has become so obvious that even the corporate-controlled media can’t cover it up any longer. The Washington Post, for example, published a report July 16 whose headline left little to the imagination: “2016 fundraising shows power tilting to groups backed by wealthy elite.” The article noted that “independent” expenditures by so-called super PACs—political action committees loosely linked to the candidates—would for the first time exceed the spending by the candidates and their official campaign committees.

On the Republican side, the pace has been set by Jeb Bush, brother of former president George W. Bush and son of former president George H.W. Bush. His campaign and two associated super PACs raised $119 million during the second quarter of 2015, the largest amount ever raised for a presidential candidate so early in the campaign.

Nearly all this money came from well-heeled donors: Bush himself gave more money to his own campaign ($399,720) than all of his small donors combined ($368,023). Besides the billionaires and multi-millionaires who gave up to $1 million apiece to the super PAC (the limit set by the Bush campaign), Bush raked in cash from lobbyists representing finance, oil, wholesale, real estate and a raft of other industries.

Super PACs are the offspring of the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision and subsequent court actions, whicheffectively removed any limit on what billionaires and corporations can give to political action committees (donations to candidates themselves are still limited to $2,700).
Super PACs first played a significant role in 2012, mainly in the Republican primary campaign, where billionaires Sheldon Adelson and Foster Friess kept Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum in the field against Mitt Romney, himself a hedge fund boss and near-billionaire.

What is happening in 2016 is a further quantitative leap. Super PACs account for $230 million in funding for Republican candidates, compared to $65 million raised by the candidates themselves.
Every significant Republican candidate has a billionaire (or in the case of Donald Trump, is a billionaire), except Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, whose occasional objections to US military adventures overseas have cut him off from such funding, causing his campaign prospects to fade rapidly.

Super PAC funding has made Jeb Bush the frontrunner, while also boosting Senator Ted Cruz ($53 million) and Senator Marco Rubio ($44 million) to the status of serious contenders. Another top Republican hopeful, Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin, raked in $20 million for his super PAC before declaring his candidacy July 13.

Super PACs will sustain at least another half dozen Republican candidates. Three billionaires are funding former Texas Governor Rick Perry, with $16 million of the $17 million he has raised. Ohio Governor John Kasich, who is to announce next week, has $11.5 million, and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie $10 million. Even Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, a latecomer to the campaign, is backed by $9 million in super PAC money. Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina also have enough big-money donors to run campaigns.

On the Democratic side, the same essential reality prevails, albeit masked by the pretense that the Democratic Party is the party of working people, and the populist rhetoric of some of the Democratic challengers to former secretary of state Hillary Clinton.

Clinton’s fundraising has the same profile as the Republican candidates, with the difference that, not expecting a serious primary contest, Clinton’s strategists asked big money donors to hold their fire until the general election campaign. Most Democratic billionaires, like Warren Buffett, currency speculator George Soros, and investment banker Tom Steyer, are waiting until next year.
But Clinton has already raked in smaller amounts—essentially down payments—from media billionaires Haim Saban and Fred Eychaner, hedge fund operator Marc Lasny, J.B. Pritzer of the Hyatt family fortune, Lynn Forester de Rothschild, and numerous other Hollywood, Silicon Valley and Wall Street moguls.

Last week Clinton posted on her campaign web site the names of 122 “bundlers” who raised at least $100,000 for her campaign in the second quarter. These included corporate lobbyists for Dow Chemical, Microsoft, Exxon, PepsiCo, Verizon and MasterCard, among many, many others. The identity of one “bundler” is telling: Steven Rattner, the investment banker who headed Obama’s auto task force that imposed 50 percent pay cuts on newly hired autoworkers.

Clinton’s main challenger, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, has no super PAC but raised $15.2 million anyway, mainly over the Internet. He actually raised more money than Clinton from small donors, those who gave less than $200. This shows that Sanders is performing his assigned function: using anti-billionaire rhetoric (which includes refusing to have a super PAC), to attract those disaffected by the right-wing policies of the Obama administration, and bringing them back into the orbit of the Democratic Party.

This entire process has nothing whatsoever todo with democracy. It shows how the US financial aristocracy manipulates public opinion, seeking to preserve the illusion of popular choice in the presidential election behind the most transparent of fig leaves. In the meantime, the billionaires will put the candidates through their paces, selecting theindividual they will install in the White House to do their bidding.